MasterCard today took a strong move to push out mobile-wallet technology faster globally, including its own MasterPass digital service, with the announced planned acquisition of long-time partner C-SAM, whose platform supports not just payments but also customer-specific offers, loyalty incentives, banking, bill-pay options and nonfinancial...
04 March 2014 Users of a new Google Chrome plugin called Zinc Save can make easy purchases on Amazon via their Dwolla account. Zinc Save works by syncing a consumer’s Dwolla account with Amazon when they log in after downloading the plugin. This process facilitates...
04 March 2014 Home Depot has appointed a new U.S. retail president in a bid to expand and enhance the company’s Web profile. Craig Menear, who previously served as Home Depot’s Southwest division manager, first joined the company in 1997. His last position was head...
04 March 2014 A new study from the Yankee Group has poured some cold water on mobile payments adoption. Only 16 percent of smartphone owners have used their device to make a payment in-store, the study found. Of those, 73 percent use them five times...
05 March 2014 Last year NCR moved to directly challenge companies like Square with the release of its take on the virtual cash register: Silver. Silver is a set of retail hardware and software applications that run off of an iPad. Now NCR is going...
04 March 2014 North Shore Bank in Brookfield, Wis., recently launched a MasterPass digital wallet to simplify online shopping for its customers, the first Wisconsin bank to offer the service. It provides a centralized location to securely store debit card, credit card, prepaid card and...
05 March 2014 RadioShack reportedly appears to be struggling to compete with the Big Box retailers, including Best Buy. The electronics-store chain announced March 4 that it plans to close up to 1,100 poorly performing stores, or about 20 percent of its stores, because of...
05 March 2014 Chicago’s First American Bank recently issued an advisory telling customers not to use their payment cards in local taxis. “We have become aware of a data breach that occurs when a card is used in Chicago taxis, including American United, Checker, Yellow, and...
06 March 2014 Billeo Inc. is partnering with Danal to launch a mobile-identity solution for Billeo’s XpressBuy checkout system. The new service is intended to make online transactions more user friendly by reducing the number of steps necessary to complete online without sacrificing consumer security....
